Wotho Atoll

Wotho Atoll is one of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is part of the western Ralik group of atolls. Wotho has a population of 160.

The Atoll consists of 18 islets and has a total land area of 4.33 km². (1.67 square miles) and a lagoon of 94.92 km². (36.65 square miles).

"Wotho" means either "entrance through the reef", or "island far away" according to different sources.

The atoll was also known as Schantz Islands after Johan Eberhard von Schantz, who discovered the islands on his circumnavigation of the globe on the Imperial Russian Navy ship "America". [ [http://www.kansallisbiografia.fi/kenraalit/?gid=352 von Schantz, Johan Eberhard] fi icon]

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